Test: Period 6 Poetry - 20 Questions

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5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Alliteration
  2. Simile
  3. Pun
  4. Couplet
  5. Elegy
  1. a A play on words.
  2. b A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds often using like or as.
  3. c A type of rhyme where first sounds are repeated in successive words.
  4. d A lament for the dead or a meditation on the thoughts that death arouses.
  5. e A stanza of two lines which usually rhyme.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. A four-line stanza or a complete poem.
  2. Exaggeration not meant to be taken literally.
  3. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines often times with a reoccurring pattern or rhyme.
  4. A long, narrative poem on a great and serious subject.
  5. A poem written in the voice of a character assumed by the poet.

5 True/False Question

  1. Metaphor → When an object/person is referred to by another object that is closely associated with it.

          

  2. Symbol → A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds often using like or as.

          

  3. Analogy → A lament for the dead or a meditation on the thoughts that death arouses.

          

  4. Assonance → A type of rhyme where vowel sounds are repeated.

          

  5. Elision → The leaving out of an unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a regular meter in a line of poetry.

          

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